Daily Archives: December 2, 2017

A senior Iranian official has held certain countries liable for the use of chemical weapons by terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq, warning that chemical arsenals are a threat to global peace and security. “There is no doubt that the remaining chemical arsenals belonging to both states parties and non-parties can endanger global peace ...

US President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor, Michael Flynn, has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia. The 58-year-old Flynn — a retired three-star Army general – pleaded guilty on Friday to one charge of making false statements to investigators, hours after the Justice ...

The leader of Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, has urged dialog toward the resolution of standing differences with former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and the forces loyal to him. Speaking in a televised address on Saturday, Houthi said there had to be negotiations between the two sides to close the ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says all foreign forces, including those of the so-called US-led coalition that are present in Syria without the authorization from the Damascus government, have to withdraw from the Arab country after the total defeat of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group. The senior Russian diplomat made the remarks ...

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies (PPCS) says a total of 450 Palestinians were arrested by the Israeli regime forces in the month of November. PPCS spokesman Riyad al-Ashqar said on Friday that 80 underage children and 22 women were among those Palestinians taken into custody last month. Most of the detentions took ...

North Korea has held events celebrating the country’s latest successful long-range missile test, with display of fireworks in public squares across the capital Pyongyang. State media outlets on Saturday published photographs showing thousands of people and soldiers celebrating in Pyongyang’s Kim Il-Sung Square, which was decorated with large portraits of ...

Organizers of protests against a US President Donald Trump’s visit to the United Kingdom have warned that more than a million demonstrators could take to the streets in an event of a visit by Trump early next year. The “Stop Trump” group that was set up shortly after the president’s inauguration ...

Iraqi pro-government fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units have found two mass graves in the country’s northern province of Nineveh, which contain the bodies of more than a hundred members of the Izadi minority group believed to have been executed by Daesh Takfiri terrorists. The media bureau of the volunteer ...

Two attacks allegedly by the recruits of the Boko Haram Takfiri terrorist group have left 13 people dead in northeastern Nigeria. Police spokesman for Borno state, where the attacks took place on Saturday, said the bombings in the town of Biu also injured over 50 people. It was not clear how ...

A senior commander of the Iranian Armed Forces says the Islamic Republic vehemently rejects any request for negotiations about its missile capability. “Our country’s defense prowess, as the main deterrent against the enemies of the Islamic Revolution, will always be on the path to progress,” Deputy Chief of Staff of ...